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From: "David Rees" <drees76@gmail.com>
To: "Kasper Sandberg" <lkml@metanurb.dk>
Cc: "David Lethe" <david@santools.com>,
	alex14641@yahoo.com, "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sharing disks amoung multiple software RAIDs
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 00:06:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <72dbd3150805020006p7f976a04o487389840f03b4a2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209696179.16523.13.camel@localhost>

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk> wrote:
>  in other words, would i be
>  safer to run rsync every day to my other disk, and run in non-raid
>  mode?!

What would be safer is to run rsync every day from one redundant array
to another array - preferably on another machine that is located as
far away as possible from the one that you are backing up.

RAID is not the same as a backup, though unfortunately, too many
people treat it as such.

-Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-02  7:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-01 11:35 Alex Davis
2008-05-01 12:50 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-05-01 13:42   ` Alex Davis
2008-05-02 21:24     ` Bill Davidsen
2008-05-02  1:39   ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-05-02  1:51     ` Alex Davis
2008-05-02  2:31       ` David Lethe
2008-05-02  2:42         ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-05-02  7:06           ` David Rees [this message]
2008-05-02  8:09             ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-05-02  8:25               ` David Greaves
2008-05-02 21:43                 ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-05-02 22:04                   ` Alex Davis
2008-05-02 22:24                   ` David Lethe
2008-05-03  0:44                     ` Alex Davis
2008-05-03 10:13                       ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-05-03  3:11                     ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-05-02 10:25               ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2008-05-02 13:43               ` Helge Hafting
2008-05-02 14:13                 ` Alex Davis
2008-05-01 12:51 ` David Greaves
2008-05-02  1:23 ` Nick Andrew

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